2023-04-17 04:00:00
The installers of temporary shelters lack the time and manpower to meet the demands of customers who want to remove them before the deadline set by their municipality.
“There are more and more Tempo shelters, but there is no manpower… the deadline remains April 15, it doesn’t make sense,” laments Samuel Lecavalier, owner of 100 abris, a temporary shelter installation company in Montreal.
Since Saturday, temporary shelters in several cities, including Montreal, Sherbrooke and Brossard, among others, must be dismantled.
While many owners take care of tidying up their shelter themselves, others need assistance.
“Many of our clients are seniors, but there are also people who prefer to do business with experts,” he adds.
The majority of installation companies with which The newspaper spoke began the earliest shelter removals on 7 April. A week later, several of them have already admitted defeat.
“We will never be able to uninstall everything in time, which takes eight weeks to install in the fall,” says Stéphane Lauzon, whose teams have been working since April 13 only.
No extension
The installer who serves the South Shore was affected, like all the others, by the bad weather in April. Between the rain and the ice, impossible to advance his work.
No extension is granted by the borough of Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie in Montreal, which reminded its citizens that the temporary shelters and their structures had to “be dismantled no later than April 15”.
In Quebec, the deadline is April 30, but it’s still too early according to Vanessa Allard, owner of Abris ServiPro.
“I have six teams in the field running at full speed [60 à 70 heures par semaine]but we know we won’t make it,” she says.
The entrepreneur estimates that a total of 20 days, without rain, are necessary in order to satisfy all their customers. Last year, two of its customers received notices because the company failed to meet deadlines on time.
Until May for some
Ms. Allard has even already spoken with the City of Quebec to ask for more time, to no avail.
“It is certain that in Quebec, it is later than in Montreal, but it has been two years since we exceeded our deadline,” she adds.
However, the city of Trois-Rivières, located halfway between the capital and the metropolis, gives until May 15 to its citizens to withdraw their temporary shelter.
Samuel Lecavalier even intended to launch a petition for the regulations to change in Montérégie.
“If we had even two more weeks, that would change everything,” he laments.
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